The Whole Quotes

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

I wish I’d played my whole career in flag football.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff.

I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Through lovingly embracing the full range of our experience- human and divine- we can heal the split that existed between the spirit and the form, in ourselves individually and in the whole world.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

We broke the world to make it whole.

I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.